Tensions are reaching a feverish pitch tonight between Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management, U.S. Capital Energy and government. On April third, Justice Michelle Arana handed down a major decision in favor of SATIIM as well as five Mayan communities bordering the Sarstoon-Temash National Park, in a suit brought against the Government of Belize and […]
The Mayan Leaders in the buffer communities held an emergency meeting this afternoon in light of Cabinet’s decision. The spokesman for the Mayan leaders is SATIIM’s Executive Director Greg Ch’oc. Having now confirmed that approval has been given to extend the permit of US Capital Energy, Ch’oc says that aside from taking legal recourse, the […]
While five fishermen are home safe, a trio of pirates is in custody tonight. As we reported on Thursday night, the Belize Coast Guard responded to a robbery twenty miles southeast of Belize City where pirates held up the fisher folks at gunpoint and confiscated their produce. There was a shootout initiated by the pirates […]
There has been precious little coming out of the Immigration Department where the Penner situation is concerned. At this point…and really at every point since the scandal broke, there have been only vague assurances that some seemingly perpetual investigation or the other is still underway. But Penner and immigration corruption aside, Minister of Immigration Godwin […]
Minister Hulse’s call to a talk show on Wednesday morning was in response to a previous Belizean caller who was upset at the turn-around and endless hassles to get a passport. His comments didn’t go unnoticed, and News Five has received a copy of a letter sent to Director Maria Marin by a very senior […]
There was a big bust at the P.G.I.A. on Thursday when a Avianca flight touched down from El Salvador. On board were two Cuban twin brothers with fraudulent Guatemalan passports and a Nigerian who had a fake Belize visa. Joel Gonzalez, in his fraudulent Guatemalan passport went by the name of Nestor Bayona Carreno, while […]
If all has gone as scheduled the Forest Department, working along with the Police, should be conducting a sweep of South Stann Creek. The goal is to crack down on illegal harvesting of rosewood which has increased in the dry season. But that increase in activity isn’t limited to the Stann Creek District. In the […]
One month ago Minister of Sports Herman Longsworth told News Five that the Marion Jones Sporting Complex was close to completion. That’s a story we had certainly heard before, multiple times, so we pushed him on it. He told us then that he had told the contractors that if the Cross Country Cycling Classic did […]
It has been almost a month since a little over thirty-five acres of vegetables were destroyed in the Valley of Peace community. The destruction, it is strongly believed, is the result of crop dusting conducted by Green Tropics Limited, a foreign concern which manages a vast swath of farmland nearby. In the wake of the […]
At the P.U.P. press conference held at Independence Hall on Thursday, there was much about governance matters and social concerns. But there were also some plain political talk. The P.U.P. has been dealing with conventions for standard bearers, and wants to be done with that by June. And one seat they are very comfortable with […]
The recent killing of a Guatemalan national by Belize Defense Force personnel inside the Chiquibul forest has sparked renewed concerns by the international community about the existing border issues between Belize and Guatemala. Since the incident a week ago, Guatemalan officials have been meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to look closely at what […]
Organizations donating to other less advantaged entities – it happens maybe less than one would hope, but it does happen. Still, our attention was caught on Thursday as students from the second form at the Belize High School made a very important contribution to youths enrolled at the National Youth Cadet Corps. It happened at […]
Last Wednesday, the Social Investment Fund handed over the contract for the completion of the Dangriga Marketplace to CB Constructions out of San Ignacio. The new contract valued at a total of one point two million dollars is expected to be completed in six months. The project was taken away from the previous contractor, Kenard […]
Two notable personalities have passed away. Ambassador for Foreign Trade Adalbert Tucker lost his battle with cancer on Thursday night in Jamaica where he was receiving treatment. Tucker had been ailing for some years now and on Thursday he took for the worst and passed away. The former graduate of Harvard University and the University […]
Easter is fast approaching, but today, it came early for students of Bethel Primary School who were treated to an Easter Egg Hunt. Diamonds International located within the Fort Street Tourism Village partnered with the Belize City Council for the event and this afternoon, some seventy-five plus students gathered at the Fort Street Memorial Park […]
There was another event not far from our studios. The Kidney Association in Belize held its annual health fair at the Lion’s Club Parking Lot on Princess Margaret Drive. The fair creates awareness of the various symptoms and causes of kidney related diseases…many which are similar to that of other chronic diseases. Several health providers […]
